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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)
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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how "first-gen social media users have nowhere to go." Ouch.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is this their first platform death? Come on, Wired!

Millennials have been losing platforms on the Internet for pretty much the whole history of the Internet. Just a handful of "social media" type services that have risen and fallen in my years of the internet: AOL Instant Message, ICQ, IRC, Usenet, LiveJournal, MySpace, on and on.

Most of these aren't even properly "dead", many I just.mentioned still have big user groups too. They just lost a critical user share when folks moved on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Usenet is still quite active. Especially in the piracy field, as a forum for discussion, it's pretty dead though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How about gaia? No one is on it anymore. That's where I first started to learn HTML.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oldest Millennials were almost too old for Gaia. We were 18-22 at it's launch in 2003.

I got my start on Alamak Chat in late 1995 but I had friends who had already been on IRC or Usenet for years prior to that.